A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

Turning night into day in Victorian-era Austin to thwart a serial killer.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A tribute to the "toughest woman on the Texas frontier," who survived a famous battle and five husbands.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

The unusual medical inventions of the man who gave the world Corn Flakes.

Perched atop a brick smokestack, this enormous lug nut symbolizes the local minor league baseball team.

Journey up the capitol building's cupola for an amazing view of Topeka.

A wonderful collection of all things Oz is nestled in the heart of Kansas.

Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

A line of blue paint marks the route of the inaugural parade.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

A tiny monument to the unsuccessful attempt by Thomas Jefferson to place the prime meridian in Washington.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

An overlooked memorial honoring the local Washington residents who died in World War I.

On the Fourth of July this area will transform into a Pompeii-like storm of falling embers and ash.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

A museum where visitors can learn about greyhounds and (more importantly) pet them.